{"id":5191,"date":"2020-12-18T09:45:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T04:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=5191"},"modified":"2020-12-18T09:46:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T04:16:05","slug":"shoe-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/18\/shoe-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoe Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was 5-6 months back when Karthik<\/a> had recommended the list of autobiographies. Shoe Dog was one of the recommendations besides a dozen others. Sometimes we need encouragement and autobiographies like these help. It resulted in me reading Shoe Dog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I enjoyed every page of the book; It was like a script out of a founder’s life mixed with happiness, pain, fuckups, and shit. I will recommend everyone reading it. I will not spell the entire story. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some learning’s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Every day is a Near-death experience in the early days. One of the other things will fuck up. Be it creditors, banks, or suppliers. <\/li>
  2. Support of believers and mentors help in going a long way. They can be friends, customers, and people who have seen you grow in the journey. <\/li>
  3. Running a company in the early days is grunt work for you and the team. If your or team’s family are non-cooperative, get ready for a shitstorm.<\/li>
  4. Success and failure in the early days exclusively depend on the team. You have to work like a small family where David is up against Goliath.<\/li>
  5. Cash is needed, and a founder has to be creative in generating the same to feed their and the team’s family. <\/li>
  6. A culture of independence, transparency, and freedom is the only way to succeed in the long term. <\/li>
  7. There is no checklist of success. One has to keep trying, failing, and learning from past mistakes. One has to reinvent from the crisis. <\/li>
  8. The organization has to grow from the inside. You cannot bring a fat gorilla from outside to run a zoo. There has to be a clear path within the organization for team members and early believers who have been through the entire cycle. As the company grows, they should as well.<\/li>
  9. One has to be in the right place at the right time. It’s essential with our sweat, hard work, and pain. Our luck has a role to play in our life. <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It was 5-6 months back when Karthik had recommended the list of autobiographies. Shoe Dog was one of the recommendations besides a dozen others. Sometimes we need encouragement and autobiographies like these help. It resulted in me reading Shoe Dog. I enjoyed every page of the book; It was like a script out of a … <\/p>\n

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